(:source 
   :version  3 
   :database-name "domain-organizations"
   :ip-name "wais.cic.net"
   :tcp-port 210
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "emv@cic.net"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Nov 13 16:59:03 1991 by emv@cedar.cic.net

This is an index based on Mike Schwartz's _netfind_ seed database
as of 15 July, 1992.  It matches domain names and acronyms they
are based on with the full names of the organizations they belong
to.  It's useful for answering questions like _What's the domain
name of Foobar Software_ when the answer might be _fbs.com_.  

The data in this server has been derived from several original
sources which are also available themselves as WAIS databases -
the UUCP maps (uumap), NIC WHOIS data (domain-contacts, whois,
ripe-database), and a variety of other network-wide resoruces.
The _netfind_ project systematically collects this information and
tries to assemble the best information from multiple contradictory
and sometimes unreliable sources.

To use the netfind server directly, 
	telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu
	login: netfind

Other related questions and answers - the info-nets mailing list
and WAIS server, the irtf-rd research group and WAIS server, and
some more specialized collections like the Fidonet node list, all
try to help the problems of finding people on the net.

--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, emv@cic.net, emv@msen.com
"
)
